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Ask The Mountie
An Answer from the Mountie:
Dear Mr Mountie
What does the phrase “proud of the ground” (as in “the bunker access hatch sits approx. one meter proud of the ground”) mean?
Yours Truly
Ed
Dear Ed
The word proud comes from the late Old English word prud or prute which probably heralds from the Old French prud which is an oblique case of the adjective prouz which means brave or valiant, and in turn comes from the Late Latin word prode, meaning advantageous.
As anyone who ever played a game of King of the Hill can attest, gaining height gives you an advantage over your enemy, in fact, height and advantage have been pretty much synonymous even before the invention of the Machicolation. Hence, the phrase “proud of the ground” refers to height, or advantage; the quality of having a superior or more favourable position.
Yours Truly
Mr Mountie
The Cocktail Hour
Where is it now?
There's a time of day, after you finish work, but before the evening commences, a time that's cherished like no other. That time has got a name, and the name rings like birds song in a soft spring morning in the ears of everybody at takete - The Cocktail Hour
“The cocktail hour is a boundary, the overture that divides work from play, the restrained from the limitless, the sacred from the profane. Plus, of course, you get to drink gin.”
Because the world is divided into different time zones, there is always cocktail hour somewhere in the world. Find out where the cocktail hour is right now »
Uncle Tweed
Musings of an exiled raconteur.
Uncle Tweed was a prolific writer whose contributions amused thousands of subscribers to the PDA version of takete.
Although Uncle Tweed himself has been missing for almost 5 years, the Uncle Tweed Archive is still available for your perusal. »
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triploblastic protostomes.
Argonauta (p. 122.)
